Word: greatcoats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Serge was a precocious boy whose doting mother pampered him and made him wear sailor suits until he was 13. After the Bolsheviks took over in Russia, father Rubinstein, according to Serge, lined his greatcoat with rubles and jewels, and raced off across the frozen Gulf of Finland in a troika. The family followed him four months later, and ten-year-old Serge arrived in Stockholm with money pinned all over his undershirt, and a big sapphire hung around his neck...
...inner life, and to get, if possible, the best of both worlds. A deformed foot and excess weight stood in his way, so at 19 he grimly started training. "I have lost 18 LB in my weight ... by violent exercise and Fasting ... I wear seven Waistcoats and a greatcoat, run, and play at cricket in this Dress, till quite exhausted by excessive perspiration, and the Hip Bath daily; eat only a quarter of a pound of Butcher's Meat in 24 hours, no Suppers or Breakfast, only one Meal a day; drink no malt liquor, but a little Wine...
...drunkenness (in fact, after his first wife's death he rarely drank). But by now he had made himself almost oblivious of the outside world ("I rarely know who's President," he said). One who saw him trudging through the snow "like Hamlet in a greatcoat" said: "I have never yet beheld a sadder [face...
...night with cabinet ministers, military chiefs, economists and atomic experts summoned to 10 Downing Street to brief him on "the whole field" of Anglo-American and world problems. Then, one day this week, Winston Churchill bundled his greatcoat about him and sailed on the Queen Mary for his first visit to the U.S. since 1949. With him, their briefcases bulging, were 35 ministers and advisers, including Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden; Lord Ismay, Secretary for Commonwealth Relations; Lord Cherwell, boss of Britain's atomic energy program; two of the three British chiefs of staff...